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Future Cop: LAPD
Though the game wasn't groundbreaking it was fun going around LA in a giant Mech blowing stuff up.
I really liked the ability to transform from a bipedal mech to a fast hover car which also helps with the pacing of the game.
It did introduce me to a tower defense PVP style multiplayer that my best friend and I were hooked on for a solid couple of months.
That and Fire Fight are in a breed of Desert Strike-alikes that people don't talk about much at all anymore and were way more fun than you'd expect.
Fire Fight is so obscure now that even searching for "Fire Fight gameplay" videos, as I did for that link doesn't spit it out as the first result. Such a travesty.
Housemarque's old Zaxxon-like The Reap is a litarally life-changing 7/10 for me for multiple reasons. It won't be for you, but it's still a fun game to mess with if you can get it to run. Look it up.
Lots of PC games of that era are unjustly forgotten. Abuse is too good for this thread, but who is playing Abuse these days?
Also, honorable mention to the brand/franchise with the most 7/10s I will defend, Spider-Man. Spider-Man vs the Kingpin was so weirdly ambitious for an early Mega Drive game, Maximum Carnage was so weirdly ambitious for a late 16 bit beat-em up, Lethal Foes looked crazy for a SNES platformer and never left Japan for some reason, Spider-Man Web of Shadows was panned, but had some crazy visual, gameplay and narrative ideas... people were always doing a bit better than they should for the ability or budget they had with those until Insomniac made them big budget AAA.
The bad ones are BAD, though.
The First Tree
A beautiful personal little game about death and mourning. Got it for free because the developer gave out keys to an old forum dedicated to Dark Forces 2 editing, which basically started his career.
The Dark Pictures Anthology
Basically Until Dawn and The Quarry with lower budget. It shows but I can overlook that. They are nice little short stories that are very chill to play, considering the genre.
Biing!
A silly little sexy hospital management game. Never got far as a kid. When I managed to get further a little while ago I saw that there really wasn't that much more to the game. But it's silly and it's sexy and tickles my nostalgia.
I loved Until Dawn but couldn't finish House of Ashes and was very disappointed in Man of Medan. I thought The Quarry was also a part of The Dark Picture Anthology. Is it much different?
Hmmm that's difficult.
FEAR, probably. It was a 10/10 for my childhood for sure, but it's probably a 7/10 total ?
I'd love to see a new game for that series. But more akin to the first two not the third lol
Aces Wild. - 2D action game with a dodge mechanic that felt kinda like Bayonetta's. Also laser dog pee.
Devil Daggers
Devil Daggers has a well deserved 83 on Metacritic, so... too good for this thread.
Most of them tbh. Two examples: Homefront: the Revolution (2016) and Maneater (2020)
Tetris Attack and all of the other Panel de Pon-likes. They are exactly what I want from a versus puzzle game
I don't know that Panel de Pon is a 7/10. I mean, it's no Tetris, but it's easily the best Nintendo puzzler they came up with themselves. At least an 8 or a 9, wildly underrated.
